Announcements for Friday, October 6, 2006
Roster Updates
- Left Department
Enos Ma, Visiting Student_x000d_
Suzanne Schuknecht, Program Assistant_x000d_
Carlos Tornquist, Visiting Scholar
Conferences and Calls for Papers
- CeMENT: Mentoring for Junior Faculty
New York, New York, February 25-26 2007_x000d_
Application deadline: October 15_x000d_
http://www.cswep.org/mentoring/register.htm - Exploring Innovation: A Conference on Community Development Finance
St. Louis, Missouri, May 2-4, 2007_x000d_
http://www.stlouisfed.org/community/innovation/ - Economic Pluralism for the 21st Century
Salt Lake City, Utah, June 1-3, 2007_x000d_
http://www.icape.org/conf2007.htm - 14th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences
Las Vegas, Nevada, February 22-25, 2007_x000d_
http://www.asbbs.org/call__us.html - American Farm Bureau Federation's Annual Convention
Salt Lake City, Utah, January 7-8, 2007_x000d_
http://www.fb.org/index.php?fuseaction=events.researchersForm - 2007 Soil and Water Conservation Society Annual Conference
Tampa, Florida, July 21-25, 2007_x000d_
Abstract deadline: December 1, 2006_x000d_
http://www.swcs.org/en/swcs_international_conferences/index.cfm?nodeID=1...
Funding Opportunities
- Higher Education for Development (HED) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Higher Education Collaborative Partnership Program: Kosovo and Nigeria_x000d_
Deadline: November 20, 2006_x000d_
http://www.aascu.org/alo/rfps/cpp06/cpp06.htm - Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Program
Development of Agroecology Online Course for the Continuing Education Program in Sustainable Agriculture_x000d_
Deadline: October 20, 2006_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/SARE.pdf_x000d_
Development of Strategic Farm/Ranch Planning and Marketing Online Course for the Continuing Education Program in Sustainable Agriculture_x000d_
Deadline: October 20, 2006_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/SARE2.pdf - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Targeted Watersheds Grants Program_x000d_
Deadline: November 15, 2006_x000d_
http://www.epa.gov/twg/implementation.html - Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, USDA
Regional Integrated Pest Management Program - North Central Region_x000d_
Letter of intent deadline: October 31, 2006_x000d_
Proposal deadline: November 30, 2006_x000d_
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/fundview.cfm?fonum=1098 - Council on International Programs, Iowa State University
CIP International Grants 2006-2007_x000d_
Deadline: November 3, 2006_x000d_
http://www.iastate.edu/~cip/Grants/Grant.html - American Enterprise Institute
National Research Initiative Fellowship Program_x000d_
Deadline: December 4, 2006_x000d_
http://www.aei.org/research/nri/scholars/projectID.22/default.asp
Job Opportunities
- University of New Hampshire
Dean, College of Life Sciences and Agriculture_x000d_
http://www.colsa.unh.edu/COLSAprofile.pdf - California State University Channel Islands
Faculty positions, Martin V. Smith School of Business & Economics_x000d_
http://www.inomics.com/cgi/job?action=detail;nr=4864 - American University in Bulgaria
Visiting Faculty Position in Economics_x000d_
http://www.inomics.com/cgi/job?action=detail;nr=4866 - Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP)
Research Fellows_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/department/news/newsletter/files/KoreaInst-J... - University of Tennessee
Assistant/Associate Professor, Farm Management/Production Economics_x000d_
http://economics.ag.utk.edu/staff/positions/POSANN2.pdf - Oregon State University
Faculty Research Assistant, North Willamette Research and Extension Center (NWREC)_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/OSUNorthWillamette.pdf - University of Minnesota
Program Director of International Fellows Program_x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/HumphreyDirector.pdf
Papers and Presentations
- Wallace Huffman
(with S.K. Huffman, A. Tegene, and K. Rickertsen). "The Economics of Obesity-Related Mortality in High Income Countries," presented at the Health Economics Research Group Seminar, Corporate Square, The Center for Disease Control (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, September 27, 2006._x000d_
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(with R.E. Just). "The Role of Patents, Royalties, and Public-Private Partnering in University Funding," presented at the Technology Transfer Society Conference, Georgia Tech University, Atlanta, Georgia, September 27-29, 2006.


